Example sentences of "unsuccessful attempt [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 2 | Like many semitechnical terms , it has suffered from overdefinition , and the history of literary and linguistic thought is littered with unsuccessful attempts to attach a precise meaning to it . |
| 3 | Regrettably the customer 's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant . |
| 4 | There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them , unlike the present invention , actually worked . |
| 5 | Following an unsuccessful attempt to reach a peaceful agreement with the rebels , he , too , resigned after less than twenty-four hours in the job , to be replaced by José Giral , who , like Casares , was a member of Manuel Azaña 's Republican Left party . |